While Jesus is all about others, his followers, for the most part, are all about themselves.
While the bible may be true our understanding of the contents may not be. At some point we have to decide if we are going to believe what people say the bible says or even what we read it to say or our observations and our experiences.
My observations and experiences tell me God does not heal anyone, he does not protect anyone, he does not send visitors to GSMCOC, he does not provide ready recollections. In general he is not involved in his creation today as he was during OT times and not involved with his church today as he was during the 1st century.
We pray for safety. Are we so self absorbed that we believe God will protect us, but not protect the innocent of the world or his kingdom? He will protect us but permit a little girl or boy to be raped, abused, killed? He will protect us but permit kittens to be used as baseballs by some perverted boys? He will protect us but let Christians throughout the world be murdered, raped, tortured?
We believe God provides us with things necessary for life such as food, clothing, shelter while at the same time Christians world wide starve to death and die because they have no access to clean water? We thank him for food but I do not recollect ever hearing a prayer of thanksgiving for air. We have food not because of God's benevolence but despite his efforts. Remember how as mankinds punishment God made it more difficult to grow food?
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